I haven't got many anecdotes. Maybe I should do something scandalous.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've never done anything particularly scandalous.
I'm no good at anecdotes.
There are things I've done in the past I'm not proud of - and I could talk about them if I wanted to - but I don't reveal my secrets... I prefer certain things to remain personal; there have to be boundaries. And I don't think you need a scandal to have an interesting story.
Anecdotes are factoids of questionable provenance, burnished to a high gloss, often set in gilded venues and populated with familiar names as background atmosphere, purged of ambiguity in the interest of keeping the narrative flowing smoothly.
I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example.
When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.
The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.
You can't help but reveal your bias, and you can't but invest personally in any story that you tell.
I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.
All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.